The characters in these four expansive stories are a departure from the blue-collar denizens that populate so many of Richard Russo's novels; and all are bound together by parallel moments of reckoning with their pasts. In "Horseman," a...

Die meisten Protagonisten dieser Erzählungen aus der Feder des mit dem Pulitzer-Preis geehrten Autors Richard Russo haben ihn schon hinter sich: den Eintritt in die vermeintlich besten Lebensjahre. Die Menschen, die uns hier begegnen,...

Everybody's Fool von Russo, Richard

Eigentlich sollte das Memorial-Day-Wochende für alle Bewohner von North Bath eine Zeit der Ruhe und Besinnung sein. Aber in diesem Jahr ist es, als hätte jemand ungebeten die Büchse der Pandora geöffnet. Chief Raymer, der Leiter der...

"[Russo's] first novel in ten years hits the ball out of the park. . . . You'll lap up this gripping, wise, and wonderful summer treat." -The Boston Globe"A cascade of charm. . . . Russo is an undeniably endearing writer, and chances are...

Chances Are von Russo, Richard

Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, two collections of stories, and On Helwig Street, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody's Fool, was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning...

Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game,...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"Russo writes with a warm, vibrant humanity.... A stirring mix of poignancy, drama and comedy." -The Washington PostWelcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround...

Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel, Empire Falls. He is also the author of Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody¿s Fool, Straight Man, Bridge of Sighs and That Old Cape Magic, as well as a collection of stories, The...

A sequel to 1993's "Nobody's Fool", which also entirely stands alone. Takes place over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of the previous book. von Russo, Richard

Hilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., is...